cherrybreeze

cherrybreeze ADN, RN

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  1. Honestly...Did I over-react?

    cherrybreeze replied to oliveralways's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, I think you overreacted. In my facility, it's the INCIDENT REPORT that needs to be done within 24 hours. If you were to follow up in the ED or with a physician, you could have easily done...

  2. When it's the visitor who needs the ER....

    cherrybreeze replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    I know this thread is old, but I had something like this happen once. 530 in the morning, a visitor was walking up the hall from the visitor restroom. Two of us are at the nurses' station. We hear...

  3. Nursing Shortage Fallacy?

    cherrybreeze posted a topic in General Nursing

    As opposed to putting it on the "paying dues' thread, I'll start a new one... Do you feel that there truly is a "nursing shortage" in our country today? Or more specifically, in your part of the...

  4. Clinical Care Councils/Unit Based Practice Councils?

    cherrybreeze posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does your hospital have these? I am curious how predominant they are in healthcare today. I am a member of both our hospital's CCC and our floor's UBC. The CCC looks at all aspects of patient care...

  5. Salem sump to intermittant suction?

    cherrybreeze replied to nursej22's topic in Medical-Surgical

    The vast majority of our NG's are ordered to low intermittent suction. There is one surgeon that will order low continuous, but he also orders scheduled irrigating of the tube. It should not have...

  6. Repositionin q2 hours...

    cherrybreeze replied to Mary C's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm not sure what type of unit exactly you work on, but does it really take 2 people to reposition all of your patients? I often am able to turn a patient on my own (those that aren't bariatric or...

  7. cranberry juice and ptt

    cherrybreeze replied to buddiage's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I know it comes up automatically that a patient cannot have cranberry products while on Coumadin on our patient profiles. I thought about this just the other day, though....most "cranberry juice" is...

  8. Jcaho Medication Reconciliation

    cherrybreeze replied to SEOBowhntr's topic in Patient Medications

    Did away with Joint Commission? Exactly how do you do

  9. How big is your facility?

    cherrybreeze replied to Fonenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Our max capacity is 250, but that's if we're bunking them up in classrooms, and putting inpatients in the GI lab. Our average census is 155; a SLOW day is in the 110's and a packed house is 170 and...

  10. Clinical Care Councils/Unit Based Practice Councils?

    cherrybreeze replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    I totally hear you...our LPN's CAN do admission paperwork and the RN can sign it, but they DON'T. I think this is a shame, to be truthful. Most of our LPN's have been there a long time, and don't...

  11. Who worked during nursing school?

    cherrybreeze replied to hnt1987's topic in General Nursing

    I went to college right after high school, but I still had to work...my mom couldn't afford to support me, and my dad wouldn't (not that I would have wanted to be "supported"). I did my first year of...

  12. Heeeelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    cherrybreeze replied to kiwi08's topic in General Nursing

    I would at least reword this...they're not really "performing their formal education" on anyone...it sounds

  13. Clinical Care Councils/Unit Based Practice Councils?

    cherrybreeze replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    It's hard to say why there are no LPN's....some of the things we address are only RN issues (but of course not all). We do look at LPN concerns, however, that are raised and brought to that council...

  14. resignation/sick time

    cherrybreeze replied to irish123's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sure about the hospital I work in now, but I remember at the nursing home I worked at prior to this, you had to work all of your hours in your last 2 weeks (or whatever amount of time you...

  15. Medical Assisting

    cherrybreeze replied to ddianneepooh's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    FIRST OFF, LET ME SAY THAT I KNOW THIS IS A VERY OLD POST/THREAD, BUT IT WAS STILL BOTH AN INTERESTING/INFURIATING READ. (heh) I never, before finding this forum, realized there was such an issue...

  16. Morphine doses while dying?

    cherrybreeze replied to Medsurg Mama's topic in General Nursing

    I don't feel that the dosage was too much, I don't see any problem with medicating a patient to ensure their comfort, even if you can't "see" those particular signs of discomfort (either air hunger,...

  17. Clinical Care Councils/Unit Based Practice Councils?

    cherrybreeze replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    Do you enjoy it? Even if you didn't volunteer yourself to do it, what made you decide to? What kinds of things has this group accomplished? I think it's good to see that LPN's participate as...

  18. Nursing Shortage Fallacy?

    cherrybreeze replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    No, it's not for a school paper. I've been an RN for over 7 years, and in healthcare for over 12. It's both here, and from students I see doing clinicals on my floor, that I hear the term "nursing...

  19. US economic crisis and Nurses???

    cherrybreeze replied to fudgeremedy's topic in General Nursing

    We are seeing our overall patient census average drop...people are just not coming to the hospital, not having *elective* procedures done, etc....it is hurting

  20. Grossest Thing You've Ever Seen

    cherrybreeze replied to sicushells's topic in General Nursing

    I am an anti-mucus/phelgm/snot person too...I can handle a LOT but anything of that nature just makes me gag. I can't think of anything all that good right now, but the corn I emptied out of my...

  21. Any nurses want to answer some interview questions for me?

    cherrybreeze replied to treesap7h's topic in General Nursing

    1. What is a typical day like for you? How many hours do you work? I work 12 hour pm shifts, 11am-1130pm. 3 shifts per week, and often some extra four hour shifts (3p-730p) thrown in. 2. What...

  22. Can Anyone Tell Me WHY.......

    cherrybreeze replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Why does Dr X have a STANDING ORDER for something he's going to yell at me for actually doing (and what ELSE does he expect me to do for a post op appy who hasn't voided for SIXTEEN hours, even though...

  23. Stressful job aggravating extreme rectal condition

    cherrybreeze replied to lilprinzessky's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have much in the way of advice, but I can tell you that I can relate. I am only 28, and had surgery 2 years ago for an infarcted hemm. It was a complicated internal/external repair, and it...

  24. pt with mastoctomy

    cherrybreeze replied to Nursing-Student's topic in General Nursing

    Are you able to put the points that you "wrote" in to your own words? Do you know what the word sequelae means, for example? In your posts here, not to be insulting, you have a lot of spelling errors...

  25. sick all the time

    cherrybreeze replied to cupcake25's topic in General Nursing

    This thread makes me feel kind of bad....I'm a *young* nurse (28) and I do have chronic health problems. I've had endometriosis that was diagnosed when I was 18, and interstitial cystitis that was...